Italy Pompeii http://pompeiisites.org/en/ In 2021 I visited Pompeii for the first time and I’m still in awe. I was staying in Sorrento and took the Circumvesuviana train from Sorrento to Pompeii. From what I could see of the schedule for the Circumvesuviana train, not every train stops in Pompeii so make sure you’re getting on […]
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Three Days in Firenze
A Strange and Different Firenze. Early October is typically the height of the tourist season but it was a strange and different Firenze in early October 2021. Much of that was due to the ongoing COVID restrictions. In Firenze, as in the rest of Italy, masks were required for all indoor activities including restaurants and […]
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In 2018 my sister and I spent 10 days in Firenze. The previous year (2017) I spent two weeks in Firenze at a language school (see Istituto Michelangelo, parte uno and Istituto Michelangelo, parte due) and I was excited to show my sister some new places plus go to our old favorites. However, some of […]
Read MoreFlorence and Fiesole, parte due
This post will be an extension of my Florence and Fiesole post as well as my Flying Solo and Attitude is Everything posts. If anyone out there read the latter posts, they know that when I published them, I was getting ready to head to Florence to take a two week course in Italian. I took […]
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It’s difficult to know where to start when writing about Florence (Firenze) and Fiesole. I fell in love with the city the first time I came, following a bike trip, and have returned 10 times since then. One of my favorite memories from that trip was walking down a narrow street from my hotel on […]
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